...he preferred way in this example is to say: if working_list is None . The caller might have used an empty list-like object with a custom append. – tzot Dec 14 '08 at 12:45 5 ...

... scripts take the blob’s SHA1 as the first argument, and after it, optionally, any arguments that git log will understand. E.g. --all to search in all branches instead of just the current one, or -g to search in the reflog, or whatever else you fancy. Here it is as a shell script – short and sw...

...uick glance at the actual Python 2.5 library code, I see that Python internally compiles AND CACHES regexes whenever you use them anyway (including calls to re.match()), so you're really only changing WHEN the regex gets compiled, and shouldn't be saving much time at all - only the time it takes to ...

... What's happening is that you're bitten by this problem. Basically, what happened is that you didn't register your controllers explicitly in your container. Unity tries to resolve unregistered concrete types for you, but because it can't resolve it (caused by an error in your configurat...

...loat class in Tom Wuttke's answer works, but only if %g encoding works globally for your application. The %.15g is a bit magic, it works because float precision is 17 significant digits and %g does not print trailing zeroes. I spent some time trying to make a PrettyFloat that allowed customization ...

... I changed your expression a bit so it will work in all cases i need, including uri with http:// or www "/([^\s\.]+\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[^\s]+\.[^\s]{2,})/gi" – Ismael Jan 14 '15 at 11:08 ...

...t the blog hasn't been updated in a while. That makes me worry that eventually it might disappear, and with it, the advocated solution. I'm reproducing the content of the article here for posterity. The words belong solely to the blog owner at Sanity Free Coding. Today I wanted to refactor so...

... deal with an Option[Currency] type that would clearly indicate there is really a matching problem and "encourage" the user of the API to sort it out him/herself. To follow up on the other answers here, the main drawbacks of case objects over Enumerations are: Can't iterate over all instances of t...

...that contains command's merged stdout, stderr data. check_output raises CalledProcessError on non-zero exit status as specified in the question's text unlike proc.communicate() method. I've removed shell=True because it is often used unnecessarily. You can always add it back if cmd indeed requir...

...t item. We've run into this as well, and had a very unsatisfying support call on this issue with Microsoft. Long story short: it's a known issue, it won't be solved, and Microsoft advises to move away from Visual Studio Setup projects (.vdproj). We've worked around this issue by triggering the MSI...